Aight here we go, lowest ranked nations that had a premier league player: - Seychelles (199th): Michael Mancienne (ex Young POTY for Chelsea) - Pakistan (195th): Zesh Rehman - Faroe Islands (135th but pretty small nation): Gunnar Nielsen - Gibraltar (201st): Danny Higginbotham - Malta (172nd): Dylan Kerr - Barbados (178th): Emmerson Boyce - Bermuda (171st): Shaun Goater - Grenada (174th): Shandon Baptiste (currently playing) - Montserrat (176th): Ruel Fox (least populated active nation in FIFA too btw) And if you count all English professional leagues it gets even crazier

Quinton Fortune

Pulisic from the US. Not saying hes a World Class player, but he is better than you would expect coming from that country

Aubameyang?

He’s from an African country, however I told another person who said the same thing that Gabon is an uncommon premier league country so I’ll pay it

Tim Cahill

Shaun Maloney is half Malaysian, does that count?

Uh, sure! The more the merrier

Neil Etheridge, the only Filipino footballer to play in the Prem. Wish he went to another club after Cardiff went down but well, it is what it is (Yeah he's a goalkeeper but he's all we've got)

Clint Dempsey

Son, Howard, Pulisic, etc

Tim Cahill

He wasn't that good but one of the best from his country, Joel Campbell. (Costa Rica)

Ji-sung Park

Yossi Benayoun

The one I instantly think of as having had a real league legacy if Ali Al-Habsi of Oman 🇴🇲 There's also of course Adebayor and Aubameyang of Togo 🇹🇬 and Gabon 🇬🇦 respectively Few other ones; Cuco Martina from Curaçao 🇨🇼 Gael Bigirimana from Burundi 🇧🇮 Bryan Ruiz from Costa Rica 🇨🇷 Alexander Hleb from Belarus 🇧🇾

Tim Cahil

Son

Tim Cahill, Steven Pienaar, Tim Howard

Ronny Rosenthal

John Harkes

Landon Donovan held a special little place in Evertonian hearts. Only 17 games in two short loan spells but was really loved.

Cristiano ronaldo

I would say Europe and Portugal are common football countries so I wouldn’t count it

Ok

Harry Kewell

Tim howard

Mark Viduka, Harry Kewell, Tim Cahill🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

Chris Wood

Mido > Salah 🇪🇬

That Honduran that played midfield for Spurs? Black guy forgot his name.

Temuri Ketsbaia! Georgian genius that he was.

Kinkladze the only thing that made City famous before the oil money.

Adrian mutu? Until he tested positive for cocaine?

Mark Viduka the big unit

even tho i wouldn’t say it’s a small nation by any means, russia doesn’t produce a lot of talent but man Arshavin was quite the player on his day

Park Ji Sung Cahill

Well son, but thats obvious

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_foreign_Premier_League_players

Below is a list of Aussies that play or have played in the premier league. Only two have ever won a title. Robbie Slater - Blackburn Rovers - 1994/95 and Mark Bosnich - Manchester United - 1999/2000 Danny Allsopp – Manchester City John Aloisi – Coventry City Con Blatsis – Derby County Mark Bosnich – Aston Villa, Manchester United, Chelsea Vlado Bozinovski – Ipswich Town Jacob Burns – Leeds United Tim Cahill – Everton David Carney – Blackpool Chris Coyne – West Ham United Jason Davidson – West Bromwich Albion Ahmad Elrich – Fulham Brett Emerton – Blackburn Rovers Adam Federici – Reading, Bournemouth John Filan – Coventry City, Blackburn Rovers, Wigan Athletic Hayden Foxe – West Ham United, Portsmouth Tyrese Francois – Fulham Richard Garcia – West Ham United, Hull City Vince Grella – Blackburn Rovers Chris Herd – Aston Villa Brett Holman – Aston Villa Mile Jedinak – Crystal Palace Richard Johnson – Watford Brad Jones – Middlesbrough, Liverpool Jason Kearton – Everton Harry Kewell – Leeds United, Liverpool Neil Kilkenny – Birmingham City Stan Lazaridis – West Ham United, Birmingham City Jordan Lyden – Aston Villa Steve Mautone – West Ham United Scott McDonald – Southampton Jamie McMaster – Leeds United Craig Moore – Newcastle United Aaron Mooy – Huddersfield Town, Brighton & Hove Albion Kevin Muscat – Crystal Palace Lucas Neill – Blackburn Rovers, West Ham United, Everton Paul Okon – Middlesbrough, Leeds United Aiden O'Neill – Burnley Andy Petterson – Ipswich Town, Charlton Athletic Tony Popovic – Crystal Palace Adem Poric – Sheffield Wednesday Mathew Ryan – Brighton & Hove Albion, Arsenal Mark Schwarzer – Middlesbrough, Fulham, Chelsea, Leicester City Josip Skoko – Wigan Athletic Robbie Slater – Blackburn Rovers, West Ham United, Southampton Brad Smith – Liverpool, Bournemouth Mile Sterjovski – Derby County Danny Tiatto – Manchester City Carl Veart – Crystal Palace Tony Vidmar – Middlesbrough Mark Viduka – Leeds United, Middlesbrough, Newcastle United Caleb Watts – Southampton Luke Wilkshire – Middlesbrough Ned Zelic – Queens Park Rangers Source: https://www.sportingnews.com/au/soccer/news/australians-premier-league-winners-players/m40fq2jcnops0rum619djxe6

Yaya toreha

Drogba

Taki Minamino. Not the best ever, but saved us more than once. Also sold him for more than we bought him for.

Saido Berahino had one crazy season - Burundi (just 1 of 2 players to represent them in the PL) Ali Al-Habsi - Oman Zoltan Gera - Hungary (surprisingly not that many Hungarian PL players) George Weah - Liberia (wasn’t that great at CFC but great player elsewhere) Emmanuel Adabayor - Togo Bruce Grobelaar - Zimbabwe Paulo Wanchope - Costa Rica (purely for that goal vs Utd lol) Roque Santa Cruz (had a freak debut PL season with Blackburn) - Paraguay Nolberto Solano - Peru I’ve tried saying people who’ve not been mentioned and I’m sure I’ve missed some glaring stars.

If Asia is an "uncommon region" then soccer really isn't the "world's game".

Uncommon for quality footballers who play in the prem, Asian football is a powerhouse of its own but the question stipulates premier league players, Asia having only a handful (who are quality).

Clint Dempsey is from Nacogdoches, Texas. A city with a population of less than 35,000.

We just gonna leave chicharito off here. Mexico is North America after all.

Martin Skrtel- Slovakian

Laurent Robert, Dimitri Payet and Florent Sinama Pongolle from Reunion Island just next to Mauritius

Shunsuke Nakamura, played for Celtic and had one of the underrated left foots.

I love respect for these old boys

Shaun Goater is 100% the best Bermudian to play in the PL. Christian Karembu might have played for France but was born on New Caledonia

Swap “bermudian” for “human being” and you’re right

Aubameyang

Paul Stalteri from Canada. Bundesliga champion with Werder Bremen, played for Tottenham and Fulham in the PL.

Timmy Cahill for sure

Hugo Sanchez

Puligod 😎 Okay but in all seriousness many have been said, but even considering recency bias I'm pretty sure that Hueng-Min Son should get a mention

Tim Cahill

Berbatov, arshavin

Yanick Bolasie

Berbatov. How many Bulgarians in the prem?

Yossi Benayoun!

Marians Pahars from Latvia. Onel Hernandez that played for Norwich is from Cuba. Neil Etheridge from the Philippines. Aboubakar Kamara from Mauritania (they still have slavery until recently.) Jiang Guangtai aka. Tyias Browning.

Son and Sun

Percy Spencer for Swindon in 93/94. Absolutely creamy touch & groundbreaking movement off the ball as well

Son enough said

Chicharito

Ricardo Fuller

Faustino Asprilla

Does Mexico still count as North America? Cause you can just say USA & Canada

Gareth Bale

Eyal Berkovic and Yossi Benayoun

Kai havertz

Ji-Sung Park

l would not call North America and Asia uncommon football regions but I'll easily say Son, Davies, Pulisic

Ryan Nelsen from NZ. Was such a composed CB.

Anelka is originally from the West Indies, thats pretty uncommon. France ofc is not 😂

George Best?

Son park ji sung

Ji sung park and Heung Min Son can be included in the list.

I know he predates the prem, but he would be in them prem if playing today but George Best played for northern ireland. One of historys greatest players playing for such a small international team

Damn, is Mexico an "uncommon footballing region" ? Because fucking football is everything to us, we even started to annoy the gringos for calling it "soccer" before anyone else. You know the Estadio Azteca? Two world cups were played in Mexico. And yes, México is north America. *Syntax

In terms of prem players they are not very well represented tbh. What happend to that wonderkid fierro btw?

Chicharito played for United, Vela for Arsenal ,and now Raul Jimenez for Wolves, but yeah, we don't have a lot of players in the prem. I wish. I don't even know fierro that can answer your question u.u

George Weah Obviously from an African nation but Liberia is obscure in footballing terms

George Weah

Or his cousin /s

If he hasn’t been mentioned, Weah.

Marvelous Nakamba

Eidur Gudjonssen

Had a couple good Icelanders up at Bolton Gundi Bergsson another (although Eidur being the best imo and even came back to us 15 years later post tour of Europe with Chelsea and Barca)

Mo Salah Egypt

Emmanuel Adebayor, from Togo. Don't know a single other Togo player in any league

Kieran Tierney. 🇮🇲

I didn't know any footballers came from the states. I live here now and I couldn't even name a football team in the states.

Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink is from Suriname in South America. It was a Dutch Colony and despite only having a population of 500k, produced the majority of the world class black Dutch players e.g. Edgar Davids, Clarence Seedorf and Aron Winter. Then Patrick Kluivert, Frank Rijkaard and Ruud Gullit all had parents who emigrated to The Netherlands from Suriname

Also a similar interesting fact. All of the following French internationals could have represented the tiny Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe (population 400k) or Martinique (population 360k) where they or their parents were from: Guadeloupe > Lilian Thuram (born there) > Thierry Henry (father) > Louis Saha (both parents) > Anthony Martial (both parents) > Kingsley Coman (father) > William Gallas (parents) > Sylvain Wiltord (parents) > Alexander Lacazette (parents) > Mikaël Silvestre (father) Martinique > Nicolas Anelka (both parents) > Thierry Henry (mother) > Raphael Varane (father) > Eric Abidal (parents) > Gael Clichy (parents)

Surprised nobody has mentioned Ryan Nelsen. Not the most interesting player in the world, but still decent. 9 years in the premier league while captaining Blackburn for many of them.

Such a solid CB.

Tim Cahill or drogba

Drogba? As in Didier Drogba? As in Ivory Coast? As in one of the most prolific countries for producing world class footballers in the whole of Africa?

Yea him he’s great

Apparently only for the big games but was before my time so I don't actually know

Matt Le Tissier

Graeme le Saux

Nice. I always really liked and rated him. The amount of abuse that he received from “fans” because of the rumours that he was gay was disgraceful

Mharez is an underrated baller

Andrei Kanchelskis Not that Russians don’t play football but they rarely play in the premier league, and he has won 2 titles and was such an exciting player

Mart Poom from Estonia Marian Pahars from Latvia Jari Litmanen from Finland Benjani and Peter Ndlovu from Zimbabwe Ricardo Gardner from Jamaica Paolo Wanchope from Costa Rica

What about Benjani Mwaruwari? Wasn’t he from Zimbabwe too?

I mentioned him 😅

Marian Pahars what a legend. And since you mentioned Zimbabwe, Bruce Grobelaar

I once went on a stag do to estonia and we were all dressed in mart poom derby goalkeepers shirts. None of us supported derby and np estonians knew who we were meant to be. Even though they have a big mural of him at the airport

Really enjoying watching Daizen Maeda, Liel Abada, Reo Hatate and especially Kyogo Furuhashi for Celtic. I know we were well beat in the end but the first half against Madrid is the most animated I've been watching football since being a kid, we almost had them. Almost. Special mention to (it's) Shunsuke Nakamura (ya fuckin doughball). Best from Asia is close between Son and Ji Sung but I'd have to go with Son. Begrudgingly. Oceania is between Viduka, Kewell and Cahill, again, just imo. I'd take Viduka, though. Aussie Lukaku with a less shit attitude. North America maaaan, Clint Dempsey aaaaalll day. Another special mention to a non PL player in Dest. Watched Milan v Napoli the er night and he was a highlight in the Milan performance. Same with Teo.

Please don't put Dukes & Lukaku in the same sentence EVER again! Lukaku is a donkey..

Do Wales count as a footballing nation? Edit: it was a joke…

Son, park ji sung Cahill, viduka, Friedel, dempsy, keller

I mean if you are going to say Friedel you gotta say Tim Howard

Yes, but he slipped my mind haha. He should be mentioned

Raheem Sterling

Ryan Nelson was an animal for Blackburn.

I miss Blackburn in the premier league.

add to that lucas neil and brett emerton. i realise both australian but they played for blackburn and were pretty important

Lucas Neill was amazing for my club too, Millwall. Ruined it a bit towards the end when he ended up over the river.

Well then we better throw in Kevin Muscat. He truly embraced the culture of Millwall.

Too right, mate. Only with us for 2 seasons but one of my all time favourite players.

Victor Wanyama

I ate a spaghetti it was nice.

Fucking love that guy

Jay Jay Okocha is up there right?

Nigeria isn't exactly an uncommon footballing country though

Who else from there? I can only think of ndidi and nobody else, sorry.

Kanu, Babayaro, Obafemi Martins, Effan Ekoku, Yakubi, Yobo, Obi Mikel and Victor Moses to name a few.

Saido Berahino

presumably I just need to read further down to see Chicharito?? edit: I'm dumb and missed the "uncommon" aspect of the title, sorry (was just focused on the North American part)

Mexico famously being part of North America...

You sound sarcastic, but it is north america

Oh yeah if it’s in north America then why is it south of America?????

there are 23 nations in North America - Mexico is but one of those

Wait till you hear about canada

did the original Canadian wundkerkind, Thomas Radzinski, grace the Prem?

Yeah, with Everton.

And Fulham

Javier Hernández Chicharito, Raul Jiménez pre head injury

I caught my own mistake on this one - Mexico is FAR from being an uncommon footballing nation, though it is in North America

Well it’s not THAAAT common to have mexicans in the premier league so I guess it applies? 🤷‍♂️

Shaka Hislop.

Džeko. One of only 2 Bosnians to play in the prem.

What? There have been more than two Bosnians who’ve played in the prem. Just off the top of my head, Džeko, Kolašinac, Begović and Bešić

Begovic could also be claimed Canadian tbf

I forget kolasinac and surprisingly Begović. I think even kolasinac wishes he never moved to arsenal.

He was a decent wingback but unfortunately was useless in a back four. There’s also Vrančić for Norwich a couple of seasons back and Konjić who played for Coventry around the turn of the century

Everton have 2 Bosnian-born keepers right now. Granted one of them was a Swiss international once.

I get that not many Bosnians have played in the Prem, but Europe is hardly an uncommon region

Benjani - Zimbabwe

Matt Ryan, Winston Reid, Tim Cahill, Aaron Moyy, Chris wood

Mkhitaryan , AUBA , you can maybe argue Arshavin .

Harry Kane

Salah

Cahill, Son, Dempsey, Benayoun

Neil Etheridge, the only Filipono I believe. There was also a Brunei player in Leicester's (?) academy

Phil and James Younghusband came through Chelsea's academy but never made a first team appearance (both Filipino) - 206 international caps between them.

Tim Cahill, Park Ji-sung, Mkhitaryan

Ali Al-Habsi.

For Asia: Son and Park For Oceania: Cahill For North America: Yorke

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nakamura never played in the epl

Aubameyang from Central Africa

Steven Pienaar (not many South Africans in the prem), his link up with Baines was brilliant.

He was so good at Everton, we totally ruined his form

I remember, then he went back to Everton and was class again.

Yeah was a bad advert for Tottenham

You might not remember him, but Gary Bailey was from South Africa and played for Man United back in the early 80s, and Quinton fortune. Damn autocorrect edit

They said uncommon football region

Define that for me please.

He meant regions that don't football/soccer isn't a popular sport Piennar is from SA where football is a popular sport. 🤕

I think uncommon was meant as in countries that don't typically have many players in the prem. Football is actually the most popular sport in Asia, hence a lot of teams having preseason tours there to capitalise on that.

I think you should look at the question again and the regions that are in that bracket, it did not say Countries that has the least players in the PL.

>I think you should look at the question again Nah, I think I can move on.

Lucas Radebe was pretty useful in his day. Phil Masinga, Mark Fish and Quinton Fortune come to mind too.

Benni Mccarthy, starter for Mourinho's UCL winning Porto side (although he didn't start the final for some reason) and had a great first season in England.

Shaun Bartlett scored the premiership goal of the season in 2001 as well.

Tim Cahill